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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Act 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Brick advise Maggie to do?
(a) Get him another drink
(b) Take a lover
(c) Help with dinner
(d) Take a cold shower

2. What does the doctor intend to tell Big Mama tonight?
(a) That she has cancer
(b) The truth about Big Daddy's disease
(c) Which medications Big Daddy needs
(d) That Big Daddy needs a vacation

3. What is Maggie's plan regarding her marriage?
(a) She is divorcing Brick as soon as possible
(b) She wishes she never married
(c) She is about at the end of her patience
(d) She is going to stay until it is better again

4. What is the setting for the play's opening act?
(a) The veranda
(b) A bedroom
(c) The town social
(d) By the river

5. What does Maggie call herself?
(a) Cat on a hot tin roof
(b) A thoroughbred
(c) The early bird
(d) The lead dog

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the patriarch of the family?

2. What is Big Daddy's perception of Gooper and Mae's brood?

3. What does Big Mama think Big Daddy's disease is?

4. According to Maggie, who sees Big Daddy's last birthday as a double cause for celebration?

5. Where does the family live?

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